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Interactions of Microbes with Genetically Modified Plants

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The introduction of molecular biological methods into plant breeding has offered the possibility to construct genetically modified plants (GMPs) with new qualities. Major goals of genetic engineering are the improvement of product quality as well as the enhancement of resistance or tolerance to pathogen infections, herbicides and abiotic stress factors.

Attempts to improve the quality of agricultural products include the manipulation of the softening of fruits like strawberry (Jimenez-Bermudez et al. 2002) and tomato (Quiroga and Fraschina 1997) in order to allow longer storage after harvesting, the modification of oil composition of oilseed crops (Thelen and Ohlrogge 2002), or the elevation of the provitamin A content of rice (Ye et al. 2000) and tomato (Romer et al. 2000). Even in forestry, increased wood production and quality are of great commercial interest (Mullin and Bertrand 1998). For example, the lignin content of transgenic aspen, in which the lignin biosynthesis pathway was downregulated by antisense inhibition, was greatly reduced (Hu et al. 1999), indicating that some technical limitations for the use of these fast growing trees for cellulose fiber production (e.g., in paper industry) might be reduced by genetic engineering.

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Kaldorf, M., Zhang, C., Nehls, U., Hampp, R., Buscot, F. (2008). Interactions of Microbes with Genetically Modified Plants. In: Varma, A., Abbott, L., Werner, D., Hampp, R. (eds) Plant Surface Microbiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74051-3_11

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